Hi everyone! Often in Bryce, I would import a G2H (height map ala Susan) into a terrain, and then import the same pixel dimension picture as a material. I could get them to line up easily in Bryce, where each color pixel of the material lay directly atop of its corresponding height "pixel." I tried this last night in VUE4Pro, and ended up spending hours on the alignment, and never could get it right. Does anyone know the "trick" to getting this done in VUE? Thanks...

A sample of your render and/or screenshoots of the terrain and the texture (material) would explain easier what you mean (my English is not good anough to know what a "height map ala Susan" is). And I don't have Bryce. :-)

Thanks! "ala Susan" means Susan Kitchens, author of the venerable book "Real World Bryce" - sorry for the confusion. I'll explain--- Think of a terrain at 1024x1024. If have two variants of an image, one I designed as the B&W height map, and the other as a color texture, what I would like to do is lay down the texture (1024x1024 also) directly atop the terrain so that it lines up perfectly!

Try to do the following: Apply your texture. Then open the material editor and check "Object Standard". Does it fit now?

Attached Link: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/Community/Spotlight.php?Page=10

No. I tried. But I might have missed something. Thanks. I'll do again tonight, and prepare a detailed response. I did find that I had to rotate the image 180 degrees, but there appeared no way to specify the texture rotation in VUEPro. Instead I had to use Photoshop. I must have missed something, as the only texture coordinate controls I found were for scale. Also what I found is that when I tried to rescale to terrain to the aspect of the original image (8x10) in "Object Standard" the terrain acted properly, but the texture remained square and did not change aspect. Thanks for the link to "Spotlight" More tomorrow, and thank you!!

You can rotate the texture (bitmap) inside the Material editor:-)

Attached Link: http://sittingblue.50megs.com/tutorials/terrainmap/index.htm

Yes, I forgot this tutorial despite it is listed in our Backroom. It works as well for Pro:-). Thanks Charles to remmeber it. Guitta

Argh! I wish I'd remembered Charles' tutorial a couple of months ago. I use terrains as models all the time, and have spent hours setting the scaling by trial and error. Thanks Charles, nice tutorial. Not so keen on 50megs.com though, picked up 3 flavours of spyware while I was visiting. John

Hey, thanks all. I'll get back to this soon. I compiled a report on my experiences along with some sample images, but I won't spend your time on it until I check out Charles' tutorial!

Wow thanks for the tute, Charles but this spyware thing sux. My machine got screwed by going to 50Meg. I would talk to them, if I were you, as they are leaving a bad taste

Nope no problem with spyware here. Actually I looked at the page source and can't even find where and how it's loading. One more reason not to use IE I guess. I was going to say hey I figured this all out years ago and even wrote a tutorial on it then as I was looking for the spyware loader I seen my name pop out of the code.... D'oh ! You got it now anyway.

potamus, thanks for the tip on the Spyware. I'll run Spybot and get rid of it. MightyPete, I would have never been able to write my tutorial without using your tutorial as a starting point. - Charles

Charles, unfortunately there's nothing you can do to stop 50megs from spamming visitors with spyware, it's how they pay for their servers and bandwidth, they've got to generate revenue to fund your 'free' space after all. Big boys like Yahoo can do it with simple banner ads, they get enough traffic to demand big bucks for them, the smaller players are increasingly turning to adware/spyware/scumware as the targetting makes it more valuable. I didn't pick up anything really nasty there, just a couple of ancient casino diallers, there's a lot worse out there, and more difficult to remove, than that! Mightypete; of course you won't see the source there, any more than you'd see the source for the top level of a frameset.

Ok then where is this stuff suppose to have installed? I can't find it anywhere. I need file names and locations. Personally I don't think it did install and even if it did good luck trying to get threw 3 firewalls. I might have broken there loader. I don't have IE.

Hey, calm down mightypete! If you're not running IE then it's unlikely to have done anything. IE is pooh, OK! Just pointing out that viewing the html for a php stream from a mysql blob isn't going to tell you anything!

Hmmm ya had me wondering anyway cause there is no scanner on this computer.I could go download it but pain. I did a search by date anyway. Nothing, zip, zero, nawda.........

jwhitham, I've always blocked the ad sites with the 'hosts' file in Windows (IE). Now I block the pop-ups with Java disabled. I don't trust Java much. Spybot came back with the usual cookies (four cookies). Anybody else use Spybot?

Spybot is not very much Vue discussion. Is it? Maybe you could open a new thread in the OT forum to discuss about Spybot? And put a link to it here:-) thanks, Guitta